Rank Tracker SEO Software installs easily. There's a Help file that explains how to use the program, but we were unable to tell if Rank Tracker has any other features. We analyzed two Web sites built by amateurs and one popular blog. Not surprisingly, the two amateur sites didn't make any search engine's top 100 list. The program ranked the blogger's first name in the top 100, but not the other keywords we chose. It's helpful but hardly surprising to know that our Web sites aren't on Google's radar screen, but we wish Rank Tracker gave out more information than that. Though our sites aren't ranked, any information about any hits the various search engines came up with would have been useful. Better still would have been some tips about how to improve the ranking of our sites based on Rank Tracker's analysis. Perhaps that's beyond the scope of the program, but it would have made it a much more useful tool as well as a better value.

This is an unlimited trial version of the program, but it has some limited functionality. It puts an icon on your desktop without asking, but it uninstalls without leaving anything behind. Professional Web site designers might be able to get something from this program, but it's not especially helpful for amateurs.

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From Link-Assistant:
Whenever you do SEO, the most important and laborious tasks you face are tracking your rankings and choosing most relevant keywords for your website optimization. Luckily, you have special SEO software to manage these tasks quickly and effectively saving plenty of your time.
Rank Tracker Professional is a highly productive SEO tool to get loads of SEO valuable keywords for your website optimization. The software offers you a number of keyword suggestion methods to get hundreds of new relevant keywords. Taking to account the analytical data provided you can easily pick up the keywords with the best KEI (keyword efficiency index), i.e. the word combinations with the highest number of searches and the lowest competition.
Being ready with the keywords, you are to check your website rankings. Rank Tracker monitors your website positions in more than 300 search engines and compares them with your main competitors' rankings for further analysis. Each time you check your rankings, Rank Tracker displays the ranking difference which is also visualized on a clear-cut graph so that you could always check whether you are on the right way to successful optimization or not.
There are also numerous additional features in Rank Tracker which will greatly facilitate your SEO. Using the Scheduler feature, for example, will let you perform all the tasks automatically, saving your time and efforts, just set the time and date and be ready to harvest the results. Rank Tracker is always kept up with rapidly changing Search Engines algorithms due to the regular updates and allows you to stay within SE policies using such search safety features as human emulation, user agents, proxy rotation and others. Moreover all the customers are provided with free software fixes and 24/7 technical support.
Purchase Rank Tracker now and be ready to hit Google tops.

What's new in this version:

Version 6.11.1 improves tracking traffic from social media; improves compatibility with new and huge backlink index in SEO SpyGlass. The number of search engines was revised and now is 332.

Rank tracker has been my favorite rank checker for quite a while. It allows you to enter relevant keywords to see where your site ranks. It also suggest highly-relevant new keywords you may want to consider rankings for. Graphs and pie diagrams are really helpful to see big picture at a glance. Well done, Rank Tracker!

Works great! Fast, accurate (unlike all other web-based tools that use their own set of IPs and simply useless for accurate local results, which is very important for me) and easy to use. Started using it almost a year ago, and still haven't seen anything that can even come close to this rank checker.

Cons

Requires paid updates, but not a big problem for me - worth every dime invested. I wouldn't call its price ($3/month) to be a real pain for me, not at all :) I get for this updates for ~400 (or ~600, don't remember exactly) search engines every f**king day. Heck, that's a lot of work I guess, and I'm ready to pay 3 bucks to stay updated 100% of my time.

Summary

Ultimate rank checker with huge number of options for everyone. No other rank checking tools can even come close!

And those guys who promote their Rankinity tool by giving bad reviews to their competitors just s**k ;)

Now they want a monthly fee, which is the only reason I signed up with them was because it didn't have one. The search takes hours because it runs on your own computer and gets blocked so it would not be worth spending monthly as there are better software out there on a SAAS model.

Works well for the first 6 months. Has many good features, many search engines, handles problems with repeat this to same SE which usually resultat in blocking.

Cons

I paid 100 USD for the product. After 6 months the rank-checking-functionality of the software stopped working because somehow a "algo-subscription" was required (minimum ca. 6 USD per month). Discussion with the company is futile. Do a search and find that many others have experienced the same thing.

Summary

Good software with good features, but even though you pay for 100 USD for it it will stop working after 6 months unless you pay for lifelong subscription.

the big con is that it is sold by con artists with a hidden subscription agenda.we also fell for the trap and bought the enterprise edition and felt the same sadness and pain like many before and after us , now 3 years later after purchase i still can tell this was the most bad investment in the last 3 years.they give the illusion that you buy a stand alone product with their license but in fact after six months it is useless and al your money is down the drain , 3 years later they still not made it clear on the buy page that the software simply refuse to function if you not subscribe.in fact this amount you initially pay is nothing more then your subscription for the first months

Summary

the product is good if you aware of the con and willing to pay this price.it is not relevant if the price is justified , it is relevant that they are misleading people in thinking they are making a good deal.

Nice and fairly detailed reports (although you cannot print, export or email them unless you want to layout a thousand bucks)

Cons

I purchased the software (Ranktracker Pro) through Mighty Deals for almost $40. I enjoyed working with it and utilizing its reports. I was using for my personal websites as I try and learn SEO and SEM. Imagine my surprise today to learn that it will now no longer work because it says it must update its algorithms!

The receipt stated "a 6-month subscription to the Rank Tracker Professional search algorithm updates" - but it didn't say it would not work without it. I figured I still could see what my search position would be for specified keywords!

Glad I learned this before I went to the next level and/or purchased other of their products. I would have hated to invest almost $400 in the Pro version ($1K for "Enterprise") for it to only work for 6 months!! OUCH!!

At least it looks like I am only out $40 instead of the $400. Since I've not had a "real" job since late 2009, I can ill afford this kind of snookery.

Summary

It's nice software until you find the poo pile swept under the carpet out of sight. It's not a good choice unless you're a business clearing thousands every month (week?!) doing SEO for others or just like flushing money.

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